- Elliott Baker
Elliott Baker (
December 15 ,1922 –February 9 ,2007 ), born Elliot Joseph Cohen, was ascreenwriter andnovelist .He was author of the
comic novel "A Fine Madness ", which was published in 1964 byG.P. Putnam's Sons . He adapted the novel into a 1966 motion picture starringSean Connery andJoanne Woodward . ["New York Times" obituary,February 21 ,2007 ]"A Fine Madness" tells the story of Samson Shillitoe, a rebellious poet in
Greenwich Village who battles a psychiatrist seeking to curb his mood swings via psychosurgery. The New York Times Book Review called the novel "a masterpiece of what one might call rebellious farce." [New York Times obituary]Baker was born in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Indiana University.
His other novels included "Pocock & Pitt" (Putnam, 1971); "Klynt's Law" (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976); "And We Were Young" (Times Books, 1979); and "Unhealthful Air" (Viking, 1988). His novel "The Penny Wars" (Putnam, 1968) was adapted for the Broadway stage. [New York Times obituary]
As a screenwriter he wrote a number of television movies, and was nominated for an Emmy award in 1976 for his adaptation of "The Entertainer". He also wrote " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500761/ Side Show] ", the most famous episode of
Roald Dahl 's 1961 televisionanthology [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054574/ horror series] "Way Out ", which featured a carnival "electric woman with a light bulb for a head."Notes
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